Dopamine fracking involves allocating excessive resources like money, analytics, and popular opinion aggregation to intensify the pleasure derived from an activity, prioritizing dopamine extraction above all else. The term was coined during a discussion on Discord to describe this growing trend.

Saving regret is influenced more by a country's ability to absorb economic shocks than by individual procrastination. Research shows a weak or nonexistent relationship between procrastination and saving regret across various psychometric measures in both America and Singapore.